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Chiara was seven years old when she began filming her family. She was twelve when she decided to stop, the year her older sister, Francesca, fell ill. This is how the image of the "perfect family," constructed through the footage shot by a child, began to crumble, to "disintegrate." Alice, a documentary-style short film, is an attempt to "put the pieces back together" by recovering past memories, in a continuous search between rewind and fast-forward.

The syllabary of Paola Ratti evokes the history and origins of the painter, takes us into the heart of the plain of Brescia, between the districts of Orzinuovi, in Italy's rural past. Around the letters of the alphabet from the gaudy colors are articulated figurative paintings that illustrate moments, capture instants, help us to find a way, to reflect on the things that matter. The fairy tale painting is deep, seemingly simple, straightforward in dealing with the assumption, playful, humorous, humble, sweet. The imagination breathes between the mixture of dialect sounds and rhymes, laughters of children and domestic views, dreamy dimensions where the pleasure of wonder is interwoven with reality. The then child is gone. Remain red clogs, she's gone leaving behind a red thread. Behind the apple of the charm, but she looks beyond, to a new space, where further explores earth and sky.

A digital paper-cut animation on the world's oldest subject, created from Cristina Làstrego's illustrations for the book of the same name written by Carlo Fruttero.

16mm film, colour, no sound, 2'00"

A self-destructive and lonely rock musician discovers he has a daughter. Her recently deceased mother leaves custody to him. Before his daughter arrives, he decides to take a journey to discover her mother's past, but also his own.

A stop-motion animated short film born from the need to represent life within the earth, in a square meter of soil live more than a thousand species of invertebrates that guarantee the decomposition of plant organisms.

A video by Emanuele Centazzo

In facing the lens and addressing an intangible audience, the face on the web becomes a disturbing mirror of its own growing dehumanization. Everyday makeup dissects this artificial mask by discovering the raw and pulsating matter of which it is made. The digital image is gutted and broken down, finally revealing its atom, its pure essence: the pixel. This autopsy process of the internettian non-body thus allows us to go back to an aesthetic root in which thought is not filtered and in which entertainment is reduced to an inevitable colored chaos.

Cy Twombly was a truly amazing artist: painter, illustrator, sculptor, and photographer. This documentary is a tribute to the prolific American creator, a contemporary of Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns who inspired Michel Basquiat, Anselm Kiefer, Francesco Clemente, and Julian Schnabel.

Maurizio Galimberti is one of the great authors of Italian photography. He works solely in Polaroid and is able to instantly connect with his subject, whether he is a Hollywood actor or an element of the urban landscape. In this film we follow Galimberti at work, as he talks about himself through his urban visions on the streets of New York and Milan, the mosaic portraits of actors and directors at the Venice Film Festival, the research on Dadaist manipulation and irreverence of its ready-mades.

Graphite on paper animation by Daniele Galliano. The short films is made of 1465 stills.

Short animated film by Marco Capellacci.

A hyper-realistic scene where two ghosts fight to the death. But how do ghosts die?

This film is based on documentary material but is not, strictly speaking, a documentary film. Nor is it a work of fiction. The film appears to us rather as a dream, not a night dream, but a dream that took place day after day during the shooting.

An art history professor, who identifies with Leonardo Da Vinci, is irremediably subjected to the machinations of the femme fatale he loves, who will ultimately also fall victim to the same obsessions and passions.

Short film by Ignazio Fabio Mazzola.

"Solo No" is a film with which the author, Lucilla Mininno, through the two protagonists, and everything that surrounds them, addresses the theme of making Art today, of the extreme resistance that artists of all ages and past and of every field, from theater, to cinema, to contemporary art. The theater that contains the work and acts as its setting is a place of the soul, the essence of the art the author wants to talk about.

A documentary on the Val d'Aosta Alpine Rescue Unit. But it is mainly a film about life and choices. We follow, for a year, three ordinary lives, ready each day for something extraordinary, three guardian angels that fly on board a helicopter, simply to offer assistance. Over the noise of the emergency, the film narrates a radical choice, that of Silvia, an emergency intensive care anaesthetist, involving in every instance the thread of life, of waiting, of solitude.

Moncherì is a trans woman with a thousand talents, with the dream of opening her craft shop one day, but the need to earn a living forces her to sell her body in exchange for money. She is very attached to her cat, Vita, with whom she lives a relationship of total symbiosis.

At Bologna’s Specola Tower, 1932–1957, an optical technology was invented which would revolutionize astronomy. The tower’s four floors were perforated and a series of hexagonal mirrors was installed at its base, creating a giant telescope of 2×24 meters. A mobile camera was set at right angles to the mirrors and thousands of glass plates where exposed which offered a systematic overview of the city’s zenithal sky. Thirty years of research were necessary for the astronomer Guido Horn D’Arturo to invent the specchio a tasselli—also called multimirror or segmented mirror—an archetype of today’s most advanced telescopes. Horn D’Arturo’s photographic plates are now also full of spots and traces of deteriorated emulsions. This film is composed of scans and blow-ups of these plates.

Metachaos, from Greek Meta (beyond) and Chaos (the abyss where the eternally-formless state of the universe hides), indicates a primordial shape of ameba, which lacks in precise morphology, and it is characterized by mutation and mitosis. In fact the bodies represented in METACHAOS, even though they are characterized by an apparently anthropomorphous appearance, in reality they are without identity and conscience. They exist confined in a spaceless and timeless state, an hostile and decadent hyperuranium where a fortress, in perpetual movement, dominates the landscape in defense of a supercelestial, harmonic but fragile parallel dimension. In its destructive instinct of violating the dimensional limbo, the mutant horde penetrates the intimacy of the fortress, laying siege like a virus. Similar to the balance of a philological continuum in human species, bringing the status of things back to the primordial broth.

Between emotional and psychological conflicts the lives of some young people will be turned upside down and intertwined by the cruelties that fate will reserve for them during their growth.

The fundamental stages, from the seventies to the present day, of the GLBT movement in Palermo, told through archive images and interviews with personalities from the social and political life of the city, but also artists, entrepreneurs, ordinary citizens and exponents of associations for the protection of gay rights. A journey, between past and present, in the rainbow community of the Sicilian capital, which last year hosted, for the first time, the National Pride. An investigative documentary made with the patronage of the Sicily Region, the Municipality of Palermo and Arcigay, born, as the director Giuseppe Carleo himself underlines, to "clear the stereotypes and clichés that have always returned an erroneous image to our city, very often described as a homophobic and male chauvinist land. "

Time passes for everyone, we see it on our skin. For nature it is different, it transforms, changes and goes on without stopping. Inexorable, and we need only adapt

Il mondo o niente is the isolated and fantasized south of Italy. But this other world is very close, crossed by a modernity blended with an idealized archaism: peasants have iPhone 6 and wolves respond to the sound of a megaphone, while mysterious machines observe the stars and an oil refinery poisons the waters of the territory.

The story of two generations of farmers told by two families (father/son, father/daughter), between tradition and innovation, between continuity and change.

The story of a group of teenagers who are sent to a juvenile detention center.

At the foot of Vesuvius, the celebration of Our-Lady-of-the-Hens is still tinged with paganism. While Fonzino prepares a ritual altar, Biagio leads the femminielli, the transgender masters of a cult where dance and song have a cathartic energy.

Two men meet each other in an isolated house to engage in a ritual where passion and death combine in a common attempt of attaining the extreme form of pleasure.

Fifteen-year-old Giovanni and his family move from southern Italy to Tuscany after his father’s death in WWII. He inherits Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy and struggles to understand it. His older brother tells him about a library in an old castle, where Giovanni finds answers and a mentor who becomes his guide to knowledge.

In the context of the Italian judicial process that judged the crimes committed within the Condor Plan, stories emerge from family members and friends of victims of South American dictatorships: Juan, Allende's guard; Juan, a Chilean photographer; Daniel, murdered in Buenos Aires; Horacio, disappeared in Rio de Janeiro; Mariana, Victoria, and Macarena, daughters stolen and reunited.

Joe is a kid with long and wild hair. When he'll decide to cut it out he'll realize how is hard to trust a barber.

Abstract animation inspired by The Simpsons.

Alfio Antico, a Sicilian musician, lives deeply attached to his land, to its traditions and to its painful and cruel rituals. The images of the earth, the wind and of dreams blend with a repetitive and tantric music that echoes the voice of the Sicilian street vendors.

A girl, a cliff, some letters, a fan. Meshes of the Afternoon in Carini.

The story takes place in the waiting room of a private clinic where a famous surgeon, Dr. Calvesi, operates. There, two patients are waiting to have a meeting with him. They discuss their problem: doing a kidney transplant for a fee.

This documentary explores the life and intellectual works of Italian long forgotten mythologist Furio Jesi. His extraordinary life-journey as an infant prodigy, a young archaeologist who dropped out of high school at 16 to travel around the Mediterranean, studying the myths of ancient cultures. During the ’60s he was involved in the communist uprisings in Italy while working as a freelance encyclopedist. He accepted a job at the University of Palermo, and he was the last professor appointed without any degree. His short life left a legacy of wonder in all those who met him. The movie explores also some of his outstanding philosophical concepts such as the “mythological machine” or the “wordless ideas”.

_ _ (Due rasi) originates from a double suggestion: the first concerns a teaspoon used by a person dear to me to sweeten the coffee, the second comes from a movement that I repeated frequently as a child on the balcony of my paternal grandparents’ house.